Sometimes a show brings so much baggage with it that you almost feel safer just ignoring it entirely. There's a bit of a pantheon out there, largely comprised of very wordy dramas that ran for multiple seasons and that require full and diligent attention to really get, with HBO producing far more than its fair share of them (no surprise from one of the best streaming services ever).
Right up near the top of most people's lists of the best TV shows ever, there are two huge names: The Sopranos and The Wire. I'm finally embarking on the latter, years after bouncing off it as a low-attention teenager, and the way I'm watching it basically says everything about modern streaming.
